I was not subscribed to this list. Thanks for pointing it out Ron. I'm emailing here first before opening a Jira issue. LMK if should just go to Jira first in the future.
I just downloaded and attempted to use 1.1.0.458. IBatisNet.DataMapper.SqlMapper still does not support a non project relative filename. I create separate Mapper singletons for each of my databases used in my DAL. I then make a call like: _mapper = SqlMapper.ConfigureAndWatch(@"c:/Web Services/DB Configuration/Transmission/TransmissionMap.config", handler); ConfigurateAndWatch calls IBatisNet.Common.Utilities.Resources.GetConfigAsXmlDocument() which assumes a project relative filename. My previous version hack looks like: public static XmlDocument GetConfigAsXmlDocument(string fileName) { XmlDocument config = new XmlDocument(); try { XmlTextReader reader; if ((fileName[1] == ':' && fileName[2] == '\\') || fileName[0] == '\\' || fileName.ToLower().Substring(0, 7) == "file://") { // detects paths starting with drive:, \, \\ reader = new XmlTextReader(fileName); } else { reader = new XmlTextReader(_baseDirectory + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + fileName); } config.Load(reader); reader.Close(); } catch(Exception e) { throw new ConfigurationException( string.Format("Unable to load config file \"{0}\". Cause : ", fileName, e.Message ) ,e); } return config; }